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This week's episode captures us building our new hard dodger out of PVC foam and fiberglass.
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What sort of tricks are happening aft this week? The boat work continues in the yard while we prepare our cockpit ready for her new paint job and find some nasty surprises.
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Join us for the second installment of our hard dodger build for our tiny home and sailboat.
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This week it’s time for Mirrool to become a sailboat again as we install her refurbished mast and new Dyneema rigging and make the final preparations to our hull and deck ready for painting.
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We take you through the trials, tribulations and ultimate successes of painting our entire boat with a roller and brush (Roll and Tip method).
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It's a mad dash to get everything done before the big splash. We move back on board and focus our attention on installing our new poly-carbonate windows and making some boat curtains to frame them.
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This week it's all hands on deck to get our boat ready to set sail. We install our galley hatch in its new raised mount, apply Kiwi Grip to the decks, fit our new boom and stanchions. For a bit of fun we also strength test the makeshift fiberglass repair w...
Summer easterlies and the associated stormy weather at our marina in Kettering, Tasmania had us focusing our attention on the rainy day jobs of sewing, splicing and fitting Mirrool’s lifelines, lazy jacks, lee clothes and sheet bags. As our list and the ...
This week we cram months of work into one final refit episode including the refurbishment of our new sea hood, front hatch and bow roller. We also take you through a long list of other items that we needed to complete before we could take Mirrool out for h...
This week we take you through the fabrication, installation and testing of our news sails and rig aboard our 30 foot fibreglass sailboat so that we are ready to take on the Great Australian Bight. We also take a closer look at tensioning and lashing our ne...
We finish our final jobs, depart the marina and attempt to sail out of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel although the weather had other plans for us!
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We start our race against the time and the weather to use the last of the easterlies of summer to sail to Western Australia. Join us in this episode for part of the first leg from Tasmania to South Australia where we experience the changing moods of the So...
Join us this week as we complete the first major leg of our passage home to Western Australia.
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This week safely arrived in Robe we take an inspection of our Dyneema rigging on deck after our first 700 nautical miles. We also explore some of Robe’s historical sites and cook up some passage food before we head off on the next leg of our trip to Kang...
This week we tighten our Dyneema rigging and explain some of the unique features of our sails and rig while under weigh to our next destination.
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Join us this week as we depart Coffin Bay, dive for some fresh South Australian seafood and start sailing our first leg into the Great Australian Bight.
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Join us for days 3 & 4 of our passage across the Great Australian Bight where Mirrool hits a new record for her daily mileage. We also have a minor mishap, deal with an overwhelmed auto helm, hand steer downwind in 30+ knots in the middle of the night,...
We explore remote Daw Island in the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia.
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We continue our passage day sailing through the islands and shoals of the Recherche Archipelago. As you may know, we only carry limited provisions trusting in our ability to live off the sea as we travel.
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Anchored at Lucky Bay we undertake some essential maintenance, food preparation and fishing while awaiting favorable winds to continue our passage. With no more time left to wait we depart hoping the winds will back the compass as predicted...
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A tour of the interior of our Australian-made Clansman 30 yacht. We take you for a look inside our 52 year old sailboat after her extensive refit (rebuild!) in Tasmania.
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Join us for a tour on deck of our 30 foot sailboat, a 1969 sloop-rigged, Australian-made Clansman 30, fibreglass yacht called Mirrool.
Features and Systems
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Cockpit
01:12 Self-Tailing winches
01:28 Fibre (Spectra) Lifelines (for m...
Join us for the beginning of our sailing adventures up the West Australian Coast where we plan to spend the rest of 2021. There's plenty of sailing, big seas and swells, lobsters, fishing, free diving and cooking in the galley. We're looking forward to bri...
A fast sail, strong winds and lightning storms offshore this week while we dine on freshly caught yellow fin tuna.
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Join us this week for Pascale's birthday at sea on the Abrolhos Islands.
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We race @TheCruisingKiwis to dive the 400 year old shipwreck of the Batavia on the Abrolhos Islands before making a run for the shelter of Shark Bay to weather an approaching low pressure system.
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We sit out a significant low pressure system in our 30 foot sailboat in Shark Bay. We have to manage winds shifting from north east to north west with only a very limited choice of anchorages. Strong tidal flow in the region also complicated matters by dic...
All the scenes and information in this episode have been broken down in to chapters to make this a better resource.
00:00 Pascale Sailing and Fishing
00:40 Introduction
01:50 Trolling Basics. Our Choice of Lure.
03:25 Pascale catches a Yellow Fin Tuna
04...
They say things happen in threes...
00:00 Sailing outside Ningaloo Reef
00:49 Introduction
02:04 Our Rubbish Compactor
04:32 Trying Not to Run Aground
08:07 Problem 1. Autopilot Service
09:53 Problem 2. Corroded Exhaust Pipe
14:43 Exiting Exmouth Gulf
16...
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